Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) Letter Writing Campaign

Islip Union Free School District students and the community need your support in fighting to repeal the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) starting in the 2014-15 school year.

The GEA is a formula in the state budget that reduces the amount of aid each school district is entitled to receive. Reductions have taken place since 2009, resulting in a three-year loss of aid for Islip of $8,354,620.

This annual practice is detrimental to quality education on Long Island and is not acceptable to taxpayers. Now is the time to work together to eliminate the GEA.

The next page contains a letter that can be printed and addressed to legislators. You may also copy the text from the letter and paste it into an email. Legislator mailing addresses and email addresses can be found at the links below.